AAPG Memoir 74, Chapter 12: Future Hydrocarbon Potential of Kazakhstan, by I. Effimoff, Pages 243 - 258
from: AAPG Memoir 74: Petroleum Provinces of the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Marlan W. Downey, Jack C. Threet, and William A. Morgan
Copyright 2001 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

Chapter 12
Future Hydrocarbon Potential
of Kazakhstan

Igor Effimoff
Pennzoil Caspian Corporation, subsidiary of Devon Energy Corporation, Baku, Azerbaijan

ABSTRACT

Most of Kazakhstan's oil and gas reserves have not been developed. Many areas remain under- or unexplored. It is expected that a considerable portion of Kazakhstan's potential oil and gas reserves will be located offshore in the Caspian Sea. Future reserves will be discovered and developed using international technology that was unavailable to the nation during the Soviet period. Those reserves will be commercially justified with better access to world markets.